RHYMING DICTIONARY: ANSWERING AT THE SAME TIME, THE PURPOSES Joshua Lingard and SPELLING AND PRONOUNCING A copious INTRODUCTION to the various Uses of the Work, with critical and practical OBSERVATIONS on Orthography, Syllabication, Pronunciation, and Rhyme; AND, FOR THE PURPOSE OF POETRY, IS ADDED, AN INDEX OF ALLOWABLE RHYMES, WITH AUTHORITIES FOR THEIR USAGE FROM OUR BEST POETS. BY J.WALKER, AUTHOR OF THE CRITICAL PRONOUNCING DICTIONARY, &c. Fronte, exile negotium, Terentian. Maur. THE THIRD EDITION, IMPROVED. LONDON: PRINTED FOR T. CADELL AND W. DAVIES; LONGMAN, HURST, REES ORME, AND BROWN; BALDWIN, CRADOCK, AND JOY; J. BOOTH; SHERWOOD, NEELY, AND JONES; G. AND W. B. WHITTAKER; J. WALKER; AND SIMPKIN AND MARSHALL. 1819. SIR, DAVID GARRICK, Esq. THE same motives which induced me to solicit your patronage for the General Idea of a Pronouncing Dictionary, have determined me to prefix your name to the present work. If either have a sufficient degree of merit to recommend them to the attention of the public, it is in a great measure owing to the early opportunities I have had of observing your pronunciation on the stage, and the frequent advice you have favoured me with in the prosecution of my enquiries. Without any apology, therefore, I present you with a production, which, if useful to the public, will be allowed to be properly addressed to you; and, if worthless, will at least be a proof of your readiness to encourage even the faintest endeavours in the service of the muses; a disposition which will raise you a nobler monument with posterity than that delicate distinction of character, that intensely animated expression, in which you excel as an actor, or that strenuous perseverance in the arduous duties of a manager, which has so largely contributed to the credit and improvement of the English stage. I am, SIR, With the utmost respect, Your most obedient Servant, J. WALKER. |